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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2017
Applicant:
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Toru Iwane, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
NIKON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/272 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/272 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image-capturing device includes: a plurality of microlenses arranged in a two-dimensional manner; a plurality of photodetectors arranged to correspond to the plurality of microlenses; an image synthesizing part that synthesizes an image at an optional image plane of a photographic optical system, based on signals from the plurality of photodetectors; and an image processing part that removes signals of other pixels from signals of pixels constituting the image synthesized in the image synthesizing part.